Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches 10 satellites of Iridium-5 by Falcon 9 rocket within Iridium NEXT Mission on March 30, 2018. Launching place is Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This is the fifth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT. Iridium has partnered with Thales Alenia Space for the manufacturing, assembly and testing of all 81 Iridium NEXT satellites.